Amazon lowers data transfer costs for S3/EC2

Impressively low as the data transfer cost already was for Amazon’s S3/EC2 service, they’ve announced that they’re lowering it even further.

I received an email today announcing new pricing structures:

Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008)
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.180 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.160 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB

New data transfer price (effective May 1, 2008)
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB

I use S3 for storing the images on my FlightSimX blog. It saves a good chunk of bandwidth, is extremely fast and the cost is stupidly low. I’d recommend it to anyone.